The SAU Station is housed, as its name suggests, at Southern Arkansas University, which was founded in 1909 as the Third District Agricultural School to educate farming youths in the ways of modern agriculture (Willis 2009). It was created to serve rural America and, in many ways, continue to do so. Yet, how rural is… Read More
The Southern Arkansas University Research Station of the Arkansas Archeological Survey (AAS-SAU) is located on the SAU campus in Magnolia, Arkansas. The AAS-SAU Research Station is responsible for the archeological resources of 11 counties in southwestern Arkansas. The station territory stretches from the southern edge of the Ouachita Mountains to the Arkansas/Louisiana state Line, and incorporates the Great Bend region of the Red River. The late prehistoric and protohistoric inhabitants within the station territory were members of the Caddoan culture (in the west) and the Plaquemine culture (in the east). Among the important sites in the SAU station territory is Crenshaw, the earliest known Caddoan ceremonial center, and Historic Washington State Park, an antebellum town restored and interpreted by Arkansas State Parks and the Pioneer Washington Restoration Foundation.
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AAS-SAU News
Possible Lightning Strike Anomaly at Dooley’s Ferry (3HE12)
We spent years researching a site in southern Hempstead County known as Dooley’s Ferry. It was, well, is, a neat project that we would like to go back out and do some more research on. The fieldwork completed to date, which was Dr. Drexler’s doctoral dissertation (Drexler 2013), had a lot of interesting things to… Read More
Paying a Quick Visit to Holman Springs
The Arkansas Archeological Society held its 1985 and 1986 Training Program digs at the Holman Springs site (3SV29) in Sevier County. Holman Springs was a salt-processing site, situated near a salt marsh, where Caddo Indians made salt by filling wide, flat pans with brine, which they placed on fires to evaporate the water, leaving salt behind…. Read More
The Kadohadacho News for January/February 2017 is out!
The first issue of the Kadohadacho News for 2017 is out! Click the link to: Find out a bit about the new station assistant at the SAU Research Station! Read the details on the next Kadohadacho Chapter speaker, who will be here on the 14th! Kadohadacho News 2017_02
